PK wrote:
:: "Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
:: . net...
::: [snip]
::: !
:::
::: BTW, not long after I enquired, a Thames Water van appeared and
::: sat in our road most of one evening with no apparent activity.
::: My suspicious mind did
::: wonder whether they were watching for unusual water flow. Not
::: that they'd have found any since my garden is "green" and if the
::: plants can't survive on
::: the rain they get, then they don't!
::
::
:: i understand helicopter surveys are used to spot green gardens in
:: a droght with no licence.....
::
Again highly unlikely - at over £500 per hour of whirlybird and pilot hire,
it's a waste of cash and for what? - OK so they spot a few green gardens and
have them checked upon? - they can't enter without a search warrant anyway
so it's little more than 'scare tactics' on their part...FWIW, if they
managed the water better in the first place, there would be no need for
hosepipe bans at all, millions of cubic metres are wasted every day through
leaks that they can't be bothered to fix.